You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

Happiness is a drug, and only few know how to take it properly.

Death is just a distant rumour to the young.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.